Dr. Robinson is a recent graduate of the Bennington College Writing Seminars (MFA in Literature and Writing.) In 2016 he was a fellow at The MacDowell Colony and at Yaddo. He was a PEN-New England "New Discovery in Non-Fiction" in 2015. His research has been supported by the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and the Project on Death in America/Open Society Institute.

His recent publications include:

"Empathy Machine: The Singular Science of Nancy Andrews" in What It Means To Be Human, Artists in Context, Cambridge MA, 2016.